Woman’s double vision on plane leads to brain tumor diagnosis

By Olivia Stringer

A woman who put her double vision down to air pressure on a flight was diagnosed with a brain tumor .

Abi Smith, 30, first realized something was wrong during a flight to the US when she began to lose her vision in June 2019.

At first, she put it down to the cabin pressure, but then began to lose mobility in her left and right legs.

After losing the ability to hold things, such as kitchen utensils, Abi, from Stirchley, West Midlands, went to the hospital in the US, where a CT scan didn’t detect any abnormalities.

However, once she was back in the UK, an MRI scan at Queen’s Hospital in Burton upon Trent revealed a glioma, a type of brain tumor, revealed that she had glioma, a type of brain tumor .

Abi had surgery to remove the spinal component of the tumor, foll